Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn is understandably concerned with security. Here, the vital German-American relationship has changed in style but not in substance. Both Brandt and Schmidt have pursued policies more independent from Washington than either Adenauer or Erhard. For example, harsh words were exchanged between Bonn and Washington during the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. On the one had, Brandt was irritated by Washington's failure to consult its Allies during the conflict; on the other hand, Washington criticized West European refusal to provide the American airlift with logistical support. Washington added that developments in the Middle East concerned the security...
...young men were rejected, however, after an Israeli officer spotted their names on a list of "undesirables." Near the gate, farmers stacked bales of tobacco. An Israeli buyer went through the bales, grading them under the watchful eyes of their Arab growers. This year Israel expects to purchase $ 1.2 million worth of Lebanese tobacco for resale to Greece...
...Algeria in the 19th century. Yves, who was born in the port city of Oran, still feels drawn to the silky, sun-baked lands of North Africa-no longer to the Algeria of his childhood, now an austere socialist state, but to laissez-faire Morocco. There, at his magnificent Arab-style palace in the ancient fortress city of Marrakech, the designer talked at length last week with TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski about his aims, his dreams and his worries. Wierzynski 's report...
...world eager-for a fee-to help newly rich nations with their development programs. But by far the most unusual newcomers are the growing numbers of South Korean contractors, who bring with them legions of disciplined workers from their homeland. Although scores of countries are cashing in on the Arab world's desperate need for labor, the Koreans have come farther and profited faster than most in the push to modernize the oil-rich sheikdoms. In 1973 South Korea earned $24 million in the Middle East. The score a mere two years later: $770 million. So far this year...
South Korea's growing but still fragile economy needs the foreign exchange and bargaining clout that the contracts bring. Totally dependent on imported oil and relying heavily on trade with Japan, South Korea's 35 million people suffered badly from the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The slackening pace of Japan's economic growth also contributed to a South Korean trade deficit of $2.4 billion in 1974. But largely as a result of what Businessman Choi calls the kiri-komi (swashbuckling assault) on the Middle East, South Korea's trade deficit for the first quarter...